Author's Blogs
Posted February 22nd 20130
Combiner/Aggregator synchronization primitive provides mutual exclusion like a mutex, but can be significantly faster in some situations due to better cache performance.
Posted January 6th 201311
The peril of data races. Shows how even the most innocent ones can break badly.
Posted January 5th 20116
It finally happened! I've launched a new web-site devoted to lock-free, wait-free and just scalable synchronization algorithms, multicore, concurrency, parallel computations, scalability-oriented architecture, patterns and anti-patterns, threading technologies and libraries and related topics. ...
Posted March 5th 20100
Posted August 12th 20090
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Posted August 11th 200932
Here is my multi-producer/single-consumer queue:http://groups.google.ru/group/lock-free/browse_frm/thread/55df71b87acb8201
The interesting part of the algorithm is an XCHG-based producer part. ...
Posted May 6th 20096
Asaf Shelly posted interesting blog regarding first problem (radix sort) of the Intel Threading Contest 2009:All Sorts of Sorts
There is also ...
Posted March 3rd 200911
Multithreading is hard. Implementation of synchronization primitives is even harder. And most advanced synchronization primitives which exploit relaxed memory models are brain damaging. So don't rely on memory barriers for synchronization. Now you will think "Ah, you are one of those folks, who ...
Posted October 28th 20080
While dealing with Transactional Memory I realize new interesting application of Transactional Memory for SINGLE threaded applications. Atomicity guarantees provided by TM can be useful not only for multi-threaded environment, but also for single-threaded environment. Well, it's actually not ...
Posted October 9th 20088
Entry in Parallel Programming with .NET blog "Most Common Performance Issues in Parallel Programs" and recent article in MSDN " ...